# Akul Kapoor

> Founding Engineer at Credal.ai | Ex Pinterest, Bolt

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akulkapoor

Building great products, systems and teams from the ground up.

Previously at Bolt and Pinterest. I'm particularly interested in AI, fintech, healthcare and e-commerce. Always willing to talk about what I've worked on and meet new people

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Credal.ai
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Engineering Leadership @ Bolt
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Managed 20+ engineers and managers responsible for our Embedded and Login products, which were the main offering for enterprise customers. 

Previously also led the zero to one engineering efforts to develop and scale up Bolt’s partnerships with domestic and international ecommerce platforms.

### Technical Lead @ Bolt
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
The 8th engineer at Bolt. Worked on all parts of the platform, caused account creation to 50x, worked on all parts of the stack

### Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led fullstack development on the New User Experience on Pinterest on Web focused on DAU growth
Developed a visual redesign one of Pinterest’s core pages, which is used by tens of millions of users every day, and increased revenue
Personalized the content recommendations for New Users
Part of the team that doubled Pinterest’s Retention Rate

### Peer Tutor @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Pittsburgh, PA

### Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Programming @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013

### Software/Web Development Intern @ LinkedIn
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Developed no results pages on LinkedIn Search to provide suggestions to millions of users, with personalized suggestions based on user data
Rearchitected page to significantly improve load on desktop/mobile web

### Software Development Intern @ eBay Inc
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Jose
Developed an internal mobile application that aids in viewing and debugging the results of their tests on mobile devices. Published to App Store for eBay. Designed in Node.JS, JavaScript, HTML and Phonegap.

### Research Intern (Technology) @ Living Analytics Research Centre
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Singapore

### Sotware Intern @ Technology Transfer Network, Singapore. A*STAR
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Minor in Computational Finance
Carnegie Mellon University

### IB Diploma
UWC South East Asia


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akulkapoor

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Last updated: 2026-04-05